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in reply to a message by queenv
It's a simple British v. American difference as far as I know. No one in Britain will say Tawn-yah, it makes no sense in British English. Equally, I've never heard an American say Tan-yah.
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As a Brit I know two Tanya's. One is TAN-ya and the other is TARN-ya.
I guess it just all depends on the person.
I guess it just all depends on the person.
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Equally, I've never heard an American say Tan-yah.
Occasionally, it does happen. My coworker this past spring was the coolest lady of a mature age in just about the history of ever, and she was telling me once about her daughter's name.
She and her husband had agreed to call the baby Tanya, but she wanted to spell it Tawnya; otherwise, she told him, people would call the baby TAN-yah, and she wanted her to be TAWN-yah. Her husband insisted that no, no one would mispronounce the baby's name, and eventually won the argument--and so the girl was named Tanya. And after they'd sent out the birth announcements, one of her husband's relatives called them up to congratulate them on the birth of baby TAN-yah, and she was steaming mad. :D
This was some years ago, however, and it's quite possible that now that the name Tanya is better known, people saying TAN-yah in the United States would be far rarer.
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Occasionally, it does happen. My coworker this past spring was the coolest lady of a mature age in just about the history of ever, and she was telling me once about her daughter's name.
She and her husband had agreed to call the baby Tanya, but she wanted to spell it Tawnya; otherwise, she told him, people would call the baby TAN-yah, and she wanted her to be TAWN-yah. Her husband insisted that no, no one would mispronounce the baby's name, and eventually won the argument--and so the girl was named Tanya. And after they'd sent out the birth announcements, one of her husband's relatives called them up to congratulate them on the birth of baby TAN-yah, and she was steaming mad. :D
This was some years ago, however, and it's quite possible that now that the name Tanya is better known, people saying TAN-yah in the United States would be far rarer.
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Like I mentioned above, I heard only heard it pron. TAN-yah once, I think, and that wasn't on someone from the U.S. :b But almost everyone I know by this name spells it some way other than Tanya (maybe to avoid that pronunciation problem), i.e. Tonya, Tonia, Tawnya, etc.
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I've got a friend Tawnya
whose name is mispronounced by everyone ever as Tijuana and Twania and Tawina and Tan-eye-a and Teawana and everything you can imagine.
So Tanya was probably the more sensible spelling. :P
whose name is mispronounced by everyone ever as Tijuana and Twania and Tawina and Tan-eye-a and Teawana and everything you can imagine.
So Tanya was probably the more sensible spelling. :P
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